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Joined: Feb '09
Location: Belgium
Age: 34 (M)
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Well, its hard to say, but i think its neither one or the other. But normally the pair should take a bit more time as statistics proves (~55%) You should give more precision : if its a coinflip, you should say Ax (x>9) vs YY (Y<9 or Y=9)
Joined: Jan '08
Location: Germany
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Posted by shokaku: It is something like 55/45 to 52/48 in favour of the pocket pair, depending on the pair. So it is not really a flip.
no it has nothing to do with the pair, it's 55/45 against against overcards that are offsuited, while its 52/48 against suited overcards. it is more likely to make a straight or a flush if the pocket pair does not include a card you could need, so J 10 is slight favourite against 4 4 , but not against 9 9 .
Joined: Apr '08
Location: Argentina
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It is a good question actually, because I never took the time to check this...I went to my poker tracker stats and ran a pretty complicated query on my DB (basically, the main difficulty was to determine what was a race and what was not, so maybe my results are skewed on this notion) I found out that most races I win are with medium pocket pairs against only one overcard.
Joined: Nov '09
Location: Poland
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In the last 13 "coin flips" i lost 10 of them.... I counted because i was thinking i have no luck at all for some time... 6 times lost with pocket pairs (7+) / 3 with AK once with AQ (needed to push)... I won twice with pocket pairs and once with AK against 5/5.
Joined: Jan '09
Location: Italy
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I feel more conmfortable to join a flip with a small pair rather than a Ace-high but there are days I'm always on the wrong side of the flip and day I'm always on the right side no matter if I had a pair or A-high......it drives me crazy
Joined: May '09
Location: India
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for me both the hands have been winning almost equally with a marginal high rate with pocket pair, but i don't go allin with overcards a lot, i think that might also be affecting the results.
10 
4 
, but not against 9 
